gnome-panel hang

[Andy Baumhauer]

It's funny that you mention sounds.  The problem appeared just after 
enabling desktop sounds with ESD mixing, then rebooting.  In FC5 I 
opened a bug against gnome-terminal hanging up during copy/paste.  This 
led to the realization that gnome-panel was locking up.  I tracked it 
down to ESD sound being enabled 
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329647#c6).  I migrated to 
FC6 and the problem went away, so the bug was never resolved.  Looks 
like whatever was causing the problem in FC5 is back again, but wasn't 
in FC6.  Could this be related to the gstreamer re-entrant code bug that 
is killing pidgin (it dies just before making the "login sound"?

Andy